It’s December — the season of advent calendars, “Elf on the Shelf” cheekiness and the mad scramble to book Santa visits before Christmas. For many families, a trip to see Santa or to watch a ...

Since our last piece on The Limping Chicken, so much has evolved at Auzi, and all of it has been shaped by the deaf community and the hearing aid wearers who supported us from day one. When we ...

The UK has some of the best deaf specialist mental health services in the world. Sadly, that is still not enough. Should we have to choose between specialist deaf mental health services or mental ...

Two weeks ago, I attended a roundtable in London organised by GN Hearing (who make hearing aids under the Resound, Danalogic and Beltone brands) discussing a new technology called Auracast, which ...

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Hi everyone, I’m Kylie and I’m an Early Years Educator based in Cambridgeshire. I founded Badge Religion – a range of BSL badges – earlier this year. My connection to deafness is ...

My name is Vincent, I am based in Bromley – South East London – and I am a strength and conditioning coach. I currently work as an online coach at ‘Sign Fit’ helping deaf ...

My partner and I are both deaf and we were thrilled to find out we were expecting at the start of last year. I had wanted a family for a long time so it felt like a dream come true when it finally ...

For the past nine years, I’ve worked as a Health Improvement Specialist for the Deaf Community under the Equality and Human Rights Department at NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde. My job is to improve ...

Hello, I’m Alison Claire France (née Hillier, previously Swannack), a freelance artist and facilitator based in East Sussex, England. I was born in Australia, where my parents moved after their ...

I grew up in a hearing world that didn’t know how to listen. Words filled every space, but silence filled me. As a Deaf child in a hearing family, I learned early on that communication wasn’t about ...

It’s a dull, overcast and gloomy October morning so my thoughts – naturally – are drifting back to my summer holiday in the Menorcan sunshine. If you’ve not been to the island of Menorca in the month ...